The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 9.2. Swami Krishnananda.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, January 29, 2021. 07:36. AM. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-2. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ‘Society’ is an intriguing term. It begins with your own body, which is also a little society. It extends itself to all its outward relations, and ordinarily it is difficult to understand what are your outward relations. It requires a little bit of tutoring, some sort of an education. In a purely egoistic attitude, one may imagine that one is dependent on nothing at all. “I am a totally independent person. I owe nothing to anyone, and I seek nothing from any person in the world.” This is not true, because such an independent existence is not sanctioned by the nature of things. It is an ignorance of the state of affairs that...